Picnic Bento For Hanami or Sports Festivals
Picnic Bento For Hanami or Sports Festivals

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, picnic bento for hanami or sports festivals. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Picnic Bento For Hanami or Sports Festivals is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Picnic Bento For Hanami or Sports Festivals is something that I have loved my whole life.

Hanami is the picnic held under the cherry blossoms in spring. Bento are packed lunch boxes, which can be prepared at home or bought before the picnic. Those eaten at hanami parties are called hanami bento, and feature items like makizushi (sushi rolls), inarizushi (sushi rice stuffed in fried tofu.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have picnic bento for hanami or sports festivals using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Picnic Bento For Hanami or Sports Festivals:
  1. Get 10 Cylinder shaped salmon flake onigiri (rice balls)
  2. Prepare 15 Cylinder shape umeboshi paste onigiri (rice balls)
  3. Get 1 chicken thigh worth Chicken karaage (deep fried chicken)
  4. Make ready 3 potatoes worth Potatoes and shrimp stir fried with olive oil
  5. Take 1 roll Fresh spring roll salad
  6. Take 5 pieces of frozen kabocha squash worth Kabocha squash salad
  7. Make ready 15 cherry tomatoes Tomatoes marinated in honey
  8. Take 5 Wiener sausages
  9. Make ready 2 Boiled eggs
  10. Make ready 5 Strawberries
  11. Make ready 1 Melon

Hi, My name is Iroha from Japan. I made Hanami bento (picnic lunch box) and enjoyed Hanami !! Sakura was full bloomed and very. Enjoy these popular foods at a picnic under cherry trees during cherry blossom viewing, when the beautiful cherry trees blossom It's perfect finger food for a picnic and packs well in the bento box!

Instructions to make Picnic Bento For Hanami or Sports Festivals:
  1. Make the salmon and umeboshi onigiri. Mix each ingredient in plain rice and form into cylindrical rice balls. Optionally, wrap with nori seaweed or shiso leaves. I open holes in the nori seaweed with this gadget so that it's easier for my toddler to eat.
  2. Make the chicken karaage: Cut the chicken thigh into bite sized pieces. Put it in a plastic bag with soy sauce, grated garlic, grated ginger, sesame oil and shiro-dashi (light soy sauce with dashi stock) and massage the seasonings into the meat.
  3. Push the air out of the bag and close it up. Leave for at least 5 minutes. Add bread and cake flours plus katakuriko to the bag, coat the chicken with the flours and deep fry it.
  4. Make the potato-shrimp stir fry: Peel the potatoes, cut into bite sized pieces and put into a bowl of water. De-vein the shrimp and cut into bite sized pieces.
  5. Stir fry some garlic in a generous amount of oil in a frying pan. Stir fry the potatoes, maitake mushrooms and shrimp. Season with seasoned salt (e.g. Magic Salt).
  6. Make the fresh spring roll salad: Soak the fresh spring roll wrapper in water. Combine lettuce, crab stick and thin green onions with mayonnaise, and rolll it up tightly in the wrapper. Cut the roll into 4 pieces.
  7. Make the kabocha squash salad: Microwave the frozen kabocha squash pieces. Peel and mash. Mix with clotted cream or cream cheese, and season with salt.
  8. Make the honey-marinated tomatoes: Peel the cherry tomatoes by putting them in boiling water for a few seconds. Put the peeled tomatoes in a plastic bag and drizzle in some honey. Push the air out of the bag and seal it closed.
  9. Leave for at least 15 minutes, drain and check the flavor. If it's not sweet enough add more honey, and seal the bag again to store.
  10. Cook the sausages and hard boiled eggs in the usual way. Use lettuce and tomatoes to make the bento colorful and to divide up the components of the bento so that the flavors don't mix. Finished!

I very much enjoyed reviewing your cherry blossom festival recipes. You can experience Hanami picnic with your own homemade bento! We will make onigiri riceball together and make your own bento lunchbox. However, bentos form an integral part of Japanese food culture, which cannot be simply traced from a packed meal. The famous "ekiben", from bento and eki, train station, first appeared during the Meiji period.

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